Strap



(No Model.)

B. B. STIMPSON.

STRAP.

No. 447,917. Patented Mar. 10,1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN 13. STIMPSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

STRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,917, dated March 10, 1891.

Application filed November 10, 1888. Serial No. 290,497. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN B. STIMPSON, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Straps, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

I will describe in detail a strap embodying my improvement, and then point out the novel features in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a face or side view of a strap embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a partial edge View of the same. Fig. 3 is a partial face or side view representing the lining as stopping before it reaches the end of the tab, and Fig. 4 is a reverse or back view of the form shown in Fig. 3.

This strap consistsof a face-piece A, a lining-piece B, and a re-enforcing facing-piece c. The face-piece A is laid upon the lining-piece 13 upon one side and the re-enforcing 0r strengthening piece 0 upon the opposite side, and the parts are then secured together by a row of stitching a. In the form of myinvention herein shown the stitching .a extends wholly about the strap, near the side edges thereof. The face portion of the strap consists of a main orbody portion a, and buttonhole tabs (0 the whole being made in one integral piece. As shown, the tab portions a are of somewhat greater width than the main or body portion, and in each tab portion is formed a button-hole a In the example of my invention shown in Fig. 1 the lining-piece B is of the same shape as the facing-piece A, and is also formed in one integral piece.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have shown the liningpiece B as of greater width than the facingpiece and extending beyond the facing-piece at both the side edges of the latter, and have also shown it as stopping short of the tab portions a the point where it stops being indicated by dotted lines in said figures.

The strap is intended more particularly for use with suspenders, and when in use is to be folded or bent at about midway in its length, and so turned atthe point where it is folded as to present the face portion A upon the same side of both the tab portions and the portions of the strap intermediate of the fold and tabs, While the lining will be presented wholly upon the back.

The piece 0 serves to effectually strengthen the strap at the point Where any strain is liable to occur, and the strap as a whole is Very strong and durable, and at the same time very cheaply made, while it presents a neat and finished appearance.

WhatIclaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A strap composed of a facing-piece having its ends terminating in the form of tabs provided with button-holes, a linin g-piecesecured to the facing-piece along the opposite edges thereof, anda re-enforcing facing-piece secured on the face of the tab on the opposite side of the lining from that on which the facing-piece is seen red, substantially as set forth.

EDWIN B. STIMPSON.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, ARTHUR H. GAMBLIN. 

